Apple Inc. may soon be a victim to the mission of Uniquephones. Uniquephones is a company founded by John McLaughlin that’s focused on unlocking mobile phones on over 600 networks worldwide. McLaughlin stated that he has engineers working around the clock in various countries to unlock the Apple iPhone.
There have been numerous complaints with AT&T which is enough motivation for interest in carrier unlocking the iPhone. On the release weekend of the iPhone, over 6,000 iPhone unlock codes disappeared from AT&T’s database, thus making the process more complex for Uniquephones.
AT&T is the iPhone’s exclusive mobile carrier.
McLaughlin mentioned that it is legal to unlock phones in the U.S., but that he expects Apple to attack Uniquephones on issues such as copyright infringement. After succeeding to unlock the iPhone, McLaughlin plans on selling the software to do so for about $49.99.
References:
[1] uniquephones.com
